先河 xiānhé priority of the Yellow River Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 先河 xiānhé priority of the Yellow River The ancient belief and practice of sacrificing to the Yellow River before the sea, regarding it as the source precursor (figurative) something that paved the way for later developments; a forerunner or beginning of a trend; an originator Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.77 per million Cross-References Synonym 发轫 fārèn滥觞 lànshāng先导 xiāndǎo肇基 zhàojī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
先河 xiānhé priority of the Yellow River The ancient belief and practice of sacrificing to the Yellow River before the sea, regarding it as the source precursor (figurative) something that paved the way for later developments; a forerunner or beginning of a trend; an originator Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.77 per million Cross-References Synonym 发轫 fārèn滥觞 lànshāng先导 xiāndǎo肇基 zhàojī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
